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Assessing Community Telecentres: Guidelines for
Researchers
This IDRC report covers a telecenter evaluation plan, indicators in telecenter studies, issues
in sampling and surveying, matching research methods to data needs, and data analysis and reporting.
Community
SA
CommUnity is a portal that aims to support action, discussion
and research on universal access to telecenters and other
types of Community ICT projects in South Africa.
Community
Telecenters: Assuring Impact & Sustainability
The Development Gateway Highlight features an interview, several
research papers and articles discussing case studies that
seem to have succeeded in both their development impact and
financial sustainability. The site also provides a number
of links to resources on community telecenters available on
the Internet.
CTCNet Community Technology Center Start-Up Manual
CTCNet serves as a support mechanism for Community Technology Centers (CTCs) by providing
electronic and in-person linkages for its affiliated programs. This manual covers Timeline and
Process, Mapping Community Resources, Determining Program Focus, Staffing, Software Selection and
Criteria, Space, Hardware, and Security, Scheduling, Outreach, and Self-Assessment, Budgeting and
Funding, and Preparing a Business Plan.
Gender Analysis of Telecenter Evaluation Methodology
This document sets out to address the question of how gender can be meaningfully integrated into
telecenter evaluation methodologies. It is animated by African experiences and examples and
specifically by South African experiences and examples.
International Community Telecenter Resources
The site aims to facilitate the development of community telecenters
worldwide, through the presentation of information, experiences
and resources related to practical telecenter implementation
and management.
Telecenter
Cookbook for Africa: Recipes for Self-Sustainability
The publication is a step by step guide on how to implement
community based telecenters in an African environment, complete
with examples of telecenter infrastructure, baseline questionnaires,
business plans etc.
Telecenter
Cost Estimator
The Telecenter Cost Estimator is a visual tool for exploring
the impact of alternative telecenter configurations on capital
and ongoing costs, in order to help find a configuration whose
cost can be sustained by the target community.
Telecenter
Evaluation Software
Colnodo has developed an all-Spanish software program that
measures the impact of telecenters. The software is a low-cost,
easy-to-use, electronic registration system that allows the
capture of qualitative and quantitative data, which can then
be applied in different impact evaluation methodologies.
Telecenters
for Socioeconomic and Rural Development in Latin America and
the Caribbean
This study investigates some of the main telecenter projects
in Latin America with the intent of informing the IADB's strategy
in this area. Concludes with design recommendations.
Ten
Steps for Establishing Multipurpose Community
Telecenters
"Ten Steps" is a new UNESCO publication to assist
communities in establishing, operating and managing sustainable
Multipurpose Community Telecenters (MCTs). The publication
comprises ten booklets, each presenting a step towards establishing
a sustainable MCT in simple and easy-to-understand terms.
UNESCO International Community Telecenter Resources
This online service contains an annotated and classified inventory of resources of
potential use to community telecenters, multimedia centers and other local information and
informatics initiatives.
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